Agreed. I want to love the Mana Ray mounts, but there are a few things about them that bug me.

Their size: they are too small, which also means the clipping is more heavy. Then, as you said, their flight idle that sends your character flying back and holding on for dear life and lastly the reins. If you have no intention of having the characters even touch them, just don't model them, or model them lying on the seat, because having them clip through the rider's waist is just awkward. Wonder if it can be fixed by changing the scale on the ray.

You've also got the weird idle gliding it does if you take off from the ground straight to flying. It will remain idling while you fly at what looks like, quite literally, breakneck speed, and will take a good few seconds before it rights itself to flapping like it should do.

It's one of the reasons I haven't used them much - the really long pause between idle and flying when you take off just looks weird.

I also have my disliking to the mount special it does, but that's going a little off topic.

Just about any rider position is better than what we had in the air now, but I wonder why they didn't just use the current ground animation for air. I don't see anything wrong with the current ground idle, and would look just as fine as what they went with on the PTR. That being said, I personally loved the way the mount itself looks in air idle and hate to see it go. They would have to change the arc of the back or something or fix the rider position though. The changes do fix the problem, but at the cost of some of the uniqueness I liked about them. Such is the price I suppose!

Mana Rays (mounts, battle pets haven't been changed) fly much closer to the ground in general now.Same posture for flying idleAs an aside, the horn or fin on the head seems to have been sized down. I've no idea why, and I've no idea what I think of it, personally.

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